For centuries, the
witches were the scapegoats for many social disasters. They were
always the poorest classes of society. We believe this is not a
coincidence.

The
witch-burning rituals were not only a reproduction of patriarchy, but
also created an atmosphere of social hysteria which blanketed the
actual causes.

Yet today, we
have stronger tools to understand and analyze the causes of our miseries, such as critical thinking and scientific discourse.

We are
witches because we will point out the actual causes of our suffering.
As with the witches in the past, we are not the cause but the victims
of this destruction.

We are
non-flammable witches because no witch-burning ritual put an end to
the miseries of the world; the rituals actually created more witches.

In fact, it
created more than that. Mohammed Bouazizi burning himself in Tunisia
due to poverty and witches being burnt in the Early Modern period have a common root: They were made pay for the consequences they did not cause.

“Money is the god of this world; the bourgeois takes the proletarian’s money from him and so makes a practical atheist of him. ” [Friedrich Engels]

We are
non-flammable witches because we get up, stand up, and don't give up
the fight.

We invite
everyone to question all the dogmas surrounding us. We invite
everyone to fight against religions, the official historical
maintainers of social dogmas.

What is
religion?

Organized
religion, from the very moment it emerged, has been a part of power
relations. We believe that this is in the historical nature of
religions.

We reject
the hypocrisy of considering religions as mere personal beliefs. From
sexual orientations to basic right claims and from formal education
to gender politics, religion is a tool of oppression, misinformation
and exploitation. Institutionalized religion is still one of the most
important tools to legitimize sexism, injustice and inequalities.

We imagine a world where supernatural beliefs are purely personal issues. We imagine a world where free thought and critical thinking are the methods of social decisions.

We seek for
freedom from religion.

What does “freedom from religion” mean?

In the
social sense, we mean a society where every child is equidistant from
all religions of the world and then considers each of them freely.

In the
political sense, we mean a new social order where social institutions
create an environment where all religions are equally available to
the public.

Therefore,
we demand the real freedom of individual religious beliefs.

How will
freedom from religions be attained?

We highlight
that there are 4200 active religions in the world (not counting the
church of the flying spaghetti monster).
Thus, freedom of religious belief requires either that we establish
sanctuaries and recruit clergymen of each religion in all
neighborhoods and villages or that we free the society from all religious
institutions – political and social.